CRANBROOK FORUM GALLERY

Thursday, September 17, 2009

We are now accepting proposals for Forum Fall 2009. As Forum directors, Patrick Gantert (sculpture) and Lauren Payne (photo), we are very excited for this opportunity to work with you all! We are looking forward to taking on the Forum gallery as a site in which new ideas, interactions and connections begin between Cranbrook students and within the larger community.

For new students, Forum serves as our on campus gallery. At this time you are invited to submit a proposal to curate a Forum show during the Fall season. Forum shows last for one week, openings are on Fridays from 6-9.

We would like the curators to offer insight into each exhibition and to illuminate their opinion and criteria for curating their show. For this reason, we require curatorial statements for each show. The length and content of the statement will be left up to the curator, but all exhibitions will be contingent on the curator completing a text in response to their chosen work.

And finally we have a blog for Forum to act as an archive and online source for the broader art community. For this reason curators will also be required to submit 3-5 images that represent their exhibit along with their statement before each show. Also we can post your call for submissions if that is something you feel would help. You can check it out at http://cranbrookforumgallery.blogspot.com/

If you have any questions or concerns please email us at Cranbrookforumgallery@gmail.com

The deadline is to be determined, but expect the beginning of October. Please print them out and turn them in to Patrick in his studio in sculpture or Lauren in her studio in the Hangar.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Time and place need the human element to create the exchange of relationships and moments. The real question is how will the human element use the full potential of time and place for these opportunities

The “Exchange” exhibit is work selected by students and faculty from the four schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts, Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, United Kingdom, and Academie of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. Individual projects were completed at a two-week residency at the Fran Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium. The Frans Masereel is a center for printmaking, but also for dialogue of knowledge, international collaboration, and research.

Techniques like intaglio, lithography, and screen-printing were used in traditional form along with altering the process for the artists needs. Continuing with ideas already in progress and artists letting the experience and environment guide the completion of the piece. New experimentation with processes is represents in the diverse range of prints.

The exchange goes beyond these individual prints. It is a two-week moment of stepping out of an everyday school routine and sharing cultures, ideas, and everyday interests. The short time period within this small community started the cultivation of relationships.

To continue the development and mark the time in Belgium this exhibit will travel to each of the schools. Communication will continue with the participants by 21st Century devices and adding to future possibilities of reconnecting in physical places.

Ema Ishii Wrapping is everywhere. Our body is wrapped in clothing, we are wrapped in the air, and our planet is wrapped in the galaxy. Wrapping can be beautiful, decorative, functional/non-functional, or part of an art making.

This is a collection of works that contain animals, chair, memories, body, and sand. Our works will show the personal understanding and expression of the word “wrapping”.